Non-profits with tight budgets can still impact their fundraising efforts without having to buy ads or send mass direct mailings. Free editorial placements often garner more attention and cost nothing.
No budget for PR? Do it yourself with the help of technology!
Small businesses and non-profit organizations may not have the budgets to hire a PR firm, but that doesn’t mean they can’t still benefit from the advantages of editorial coverage. The Internet and technology are making it easier and cost-effective for small businesses and organizations to manage their own PR.
Change Your Tone – Media Coverage Shouldn’t Be Toned By Software
The world of PR is benefiting from dramatic changes in the way media coverage is being delivered electronically to your computer desktop or PDA of choice. Perhaps the nuisance of ink on your fingers is being replaced by a bad case of “BlackBerry thumb” — but nevertheless getting your media coverage electronically has never been easier or more mobile.
Communications Analysis: Real-Time — Benchmark for success in 2006
You’ve just reviewed the final results of your last pro-active media campaign to launch that new product or service. The numbers look pretty good: media impressions were in the millions; coverage was evenly split between broadcast and print; and a leading national paper ran three stories on the launch-pretty impressive. But could it have been better?
How to Create a Better News Release
You can get a better response from reporters and editors, if you follow a few simple guidelines in writing your news release. Appropriate content, an interesting headline, a packed first paragraph, polished wording, using a standard format, and by being prepared for questions.
Publicists: It’s Time to Embrace the Technology of Online Press Kits
Media professionals prefer online media rooms and the Internet for researching stories. Many publicists are still using hard copy press kits and e-mail attachments. Online press kits are how technology is making a publicist’s job easier and more effective.
Relationship Management: Knowing and Communicating with Your Key Publics
Many organizations actively engage in ‘Issues Management.’ For most, this involves scanning the news, developing communications strategies around relevant issues and trends, and then communicating their messages back through the media.
However, effective communications is more than just managing issues through the media. Companies and organizations must also be aware of their external publics.
Your Expertise is Boring!
Information, delivered by experts in a straightforward fashion, is too often reminiscent of a classroom lecture Boring! However that same content, deliver with passion, purpose, urgency, spirit and conviction can move people to action and move you to the top of the news medias first call list.
Invite the Media to Tell Your Story
With preparation and diligence, you will overcome almost all media relations challenges.
Beyond Marketing — Brand Management
In the past, the management of an organization’s brand has usually been the sole domain of the organization’s marketing team. However, with the evolution of the Internet and people’s need for instant information, there is a greater call for public relations professionals to become more directly involved with an organization’s brand management.